Hi Ian,

Sorry to be slow to respond but was under the weather for a couple of days. I remember that movie vaguely, it's been a while. The official line coming from the inheritors of the Robert Johnson legacy is that he was a religious man and that the pact with the devil is just fictional hype. In many of the blues players lives there is a pull between the the religious and the secular, there was even a scene about it in the recent movie on Ray Charles. My belief is that Johnson was commenting on the human condition and the world he saw around him, which includes some superstitions. And he was a very young man when he died, he was probably still sowing his oats so to speak. He had troubled relationships and bouts of depression also. If you look at the life of Hank Williams, you find a lot of similarities.

Thanks for the kind words. This recording was a bit of a breakthrough for me, especially in the impromptu guitar solo.

Pete Gallatin
http://www.reverbnation.com/patiopete